Patents Examined by William Boddie
  • Patent number: 11488526
    Abstract: A display apparatus in which data signal distortion is reduced and thus is capable of accurately displaying an image includes a substrate including a display area that includes a first display area and a second display area, and a peripheral area surrounding the display area, first and second data lines respectively across the first and second display areas, main scan lines across the display area and disposed in parallel to the first and second data lines, sub scan lines across the display area and respectively connected to the main scan lines, the sub scan lines being disposed to cross the main scan lines, first data line pads connected to the first data lines, second data line pads connected to the second data lines, and scan line pads connected to the main scan lines, the first data line pads, the scan line pads, and the second data line pads being adjacent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taehoon Kim, Jisu Na, Seungkyu Lee
  • Patent number: 11474629
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, first electrodes, second electrodes, and a driver. The first electrodes are disposed in a matrix (row-column configuration) in a display region of the substrate. The second electrodes are disposed in a peripheral region on the outside of the display region of the substrate. The driver supplies a drive signal to the first electrodes and the second electrodes. The first electrodes output detection signals corresponding to self-capacitance changes in the first electrodes. The second electrodes output detection signals corresponding to self-capacitance changes in the second electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Teranishi, Gen Koide
  • Patent number: 11475822
    Abstract: A system and method for rendering subpixels comprising performing an eight-color halftoning process on the second image data to generate third image data which describe a grayscale value of each of an R subpixel, a G subpixel and a B subpixel of each pixel with one bit, generating the third image data by performing a dithering process on the second image data using a dither value selected from elements of the dither table, when the third image data associated with a pixel of interest of the display panel is generated, and driving the display panel in response to the third image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Hirobumi Furihata, Tomoo Minaki
  • Patent number: 11473984
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a reflective liquid crystal display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels and a temperature sensor. Further, the temperature sensor included in the reflective liquid crystal display apparatus is formed in one or more regions among a plurality of pixel regions partitioned into rows and columns. The reflective liquid crystal display apparatus can thereby measure the temperature of the pixels more accurately at real time compared with the case of using a temperature sensor attached onto a heatsink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takayuki Iwasa
  • Patent number: 11467679
    Abstract: Disclosed is a touch screen device for transmitting button manipulation information based on a touch pen without using a separate wireless communication module. The touch screen device includes a touch screen including a plurality of touch electrodes, a touch driving circuit applying a touch electrode driving signal to the plurality of touch electrodes, and a touch pen receiving the touch electrode driving signal applied to the plurality of touch electrodes and transmitting a pen output signal to the touch screen in response to the received touch electrode driving signal. The touch pen includes at least one button, and when a user manipulates the at least one button, the touch pen adjusts the pen output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO, LTD.
    Inventors: Suyun Ju, SungChul Kim, SangHyuck Bae, Sungsu Han, DoYoung Jung
  • Patent number: 11468822
    Abstract: A timing control board includes a point-to-point interface, a plurality of storage modules and a timing controller. The point-to-point interface is for connecting a source drive circuit board and performing point-to-point signal transmission. The storage modules each stores a set of point-to-point configuration parameters. The timing controller receives a configuration parameter feedback signal from the source drive circuit board, and outputs a corresponding chip selection signal to the storage modules according to the configuration parameter feedback signal, to obtain a set of point-to-point configuration parameters matching a protocol type of the source drive circuit board from the storage modules, and initialize setting according to the point-to-point configuration parameters to generate matched data signals and clock signals and output the data signals and clock signals to the source drive circuit board through the point-to-point interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignees: CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Feilin Ji, Wei Li
  • Patent number: 11468843
    Abstract: A light emitting display device includes: a first switch connected between a data line and a first node and including a gate connected to a first scan line; a second switch connected between a first driving power line and a second node and including a gate electrode connected to the first node; a first capacitor connected between the first node and the second node; a light emitting element connected between the second node and a second driving power line; a scan driver applying a first A-scan signal and a first B-scan signal during different times to the first scan line; a data driver applying a first initialization signal and a data signal to the data line at different times; and a power supply portion applying a first driving voltage, a second driving voltage, and a third driving voltage to the first driving power line at different times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wonjun Lee, Gichang Lee, Cholho Kim, Gunwoo Yang
  • Patent number: 11462159
    Abstract: A display device includes a pixel array unit formed by disposing pixel circuits having a P-channel type drive transistor that drives a light-emitting unit, a sampling transistor that applies a signal voltage, a light emission control transistor that controls emission/non-emission of the light-emitting unit, a storage capacitor that is connected between a gate electrode and a source electrode of the drive transistor and an auxiliary capacitor that is connected to the source electrode, and a drive unit that, during threshold correction, respectively applies a first voltage and a second voltage to the source electrode of the drive transistor and the gate electrode thereof, the difference between the first voltage and the second voltage being less than a threshold voltage of the drive transistor, and subsequently performs driving that applies a standard voltage used in threshold correction to the gate electrode when the source electrode is in a floating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Onoyama, Junichi Yamashita, Naobumi Toyomura
  • Patent number: 11460911
    Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, device may perform operations for receiving a signal from an operational space associated with an accessory device, determining hand feature information according to the signal, accessing device location information associated with the computing accessory device, generating hand-device interaction information according to the hand feature information and device location information associated with the accessory device, and transmitting the hand-device interaction information to a virtual reality system, wherein the virtual reality system generates, according to the hand-device interaction information, a virtual hand and a virtual accessory device in a virtual reality image. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: STEELSERIES ApS
    Inventor: Tino Soelberg
  • Patent number: 11455927
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a data processing device, a data driving device, and a system for driving a display device, and more particularly, to a data processing device, a data driving device, and a system for speeding up data communication in a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Do Seok Kim, Yong Hwan Mun, Myung Yu Kim, Hyun Pyo Cho
  • Patent number: 11455950
    Abstract: A method for adjusting the signal frequency includes: acquiring a first number of times of outputting a reference signal at an active level within a reference duration, wherein a correlation between a frequency of the reference signal and temperature is less than a reference correlation threshold, the reference duration is negatively correlated with a frequency of a clock signal, a correlation between a frequency of a clock signal and temperature is greater than the reference correlation threshold, and a drive signal for driving a display device to display an image is generated based on the clock signal; acquiring a target adjustment value based on the first number of times if the first number of times is different from a reference number of times; and controlling and adjusting the frequency of the output clock signal based on the target adjustment value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiao Ma, Qianqian Liu, Chang Wang
  • Patent number: 11455094
    Abstract: A method according to one embodiment includes detecting a first touch event on a touch-sensitive input area of a display, the touch-sensitive input area having groups of virtual ambiguous keys arranged approximately radially about a center point. The method further includes determining a plurality of words based on the detected first touch event, outputting at least two of the determined words to a list on a first portion of the display, and in response to detecting a gesture based second touch event in a predefined area of the touch-sensitive input area, changing the list on the display. The method further includes outputting at least one of the words in the list to a second portion of the display in response to detecting a tap based second touch event in an area selected from the group consisting of: the predefined area and the first portion of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Thumba Inc.
    Inventors: Andras Plank S., Gabor A. Rab
  • Patent number: 11450295
    Abstract: A charge compensation circuit of the present disclosure includes: a sorting sub-circuit, configured to sort inputted initial data voltages according to a pixel structure type to obtain a plurality of channels of data, each channel of the data including initial data voltages corresponding to all data lines when a gate line in a row corresponding to the channel is turned on; a storage comparison sub-circuit, configured to output many sets of comparison data according to the stored data; a lookup sub-circuit, configured to look up actual compensation data corresponding to the set of comparison data; and a compensation sub-circuit, configured to compensate for the initial data voltage on a data line corresponding to the actual compensation data when the gate line in the current row is turned on, to obtain an actual data voltage on the data line when the gate line in the current row is turned on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wenxu Lyu, Xinqiu Wang, Xue Dong, Ming Chen, Wei Sun, Hsinchung Lo
  • Patent number: 11449146
    Abstract: The interactive holographic human-computer interface (H2CI) includes a local system in communication with an external system, and a holographic display unit for constructing and displaying one or more holograms. The one or more holograms emits electromagnetic radiation. The interface further includes a motion detector for detecting motion, type of motion, dwell time, and location of a physical command object relative to the displayed hologram, and sensors on the external system to determine the location of two or more physical objects relative to each other. Emission and detection by the one or more displayed holograms of electromagnetic radiation is used to simulate electrical, vibration, or other physical phenomena characteristic of the physical objects represented by the one or more displayed holograms. The emitted electromagnetic radiation is converted into a command signal when the electromagnetic radiation is detected by another hologram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Inventor: Wayne Patrick O'Brien
  • Patent number: 11443695
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a substrate having a display area and a peripheral area, the peripheral area being outside the display area, a display unit on the display area of the substrate, the display unit including a pixel circuit and a display device electrically connected to the pixel circuit, a driver in the peripheral area of the substrate and configured to provide a signal to the display device, and an output wiring configured to transmit the signal from the driver to the display device, at least a part of the output wiring overlapping the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Byungsun Kim
  • Patent number: 11443681
    Abstract: A gate driver according to an exemplary embodiment of the present inventive concept includes a pull-up-pull-down circuit configured to pull up a gate signal to a high level of a first clock signal in a first duration and configured to pull down the gate signal to a low level of the first clock signal in a second duration, and a pull-down boosting circuit configured to output a first off voltage to the pull-up-pull-down part in the second duration in response to a second clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cholho Kim, Gunwoo Yang, Hyunyoung Choi, Jihoon Yang, Yongwoo Lee
  • Patent number: 11436982
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide a data driver circuit, a controller, a display device, and a method of driving the same. Overlap driving of overlapping subpixels and fake data insertion driving of inserting a fake image, different from real images, into each of a plurality of lines are performed in a combined manner. Image quality is improved, despite of combined driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: JiHyun Kang, HyunHaeng Lee
  • Patent number: 11430361
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC), a display device and an anti-interference method thereof are provided. The IC includes an input pad, a source driving circuit and an anti-interference circuit. The input pad receives an input signal comprising image data from the external. The source driving circuit is coupled to the input pad to receive the input signal. The anti-interference circuit is coupled to the input pad to provide a variable capacitance. The anti-interference circuit adjusts the variable capacitance from a normal capacitance value to at least one anti-interference capacitance value when an interference event occurs to the input signal. The anti-interference circuit maintains the variable capacitance at the normal capacitance value when the interference event does not occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Hsi-Mao Yu, Chin-Hung Hsu
  • Patent number: 11430403
    Abstract: A display device is provided and includes first and second pixel electrodes in first direction; first and second signal lines in first direction configured to be supplied with first or second binary signals inverted relative to each other; first potential line in second direction crossing first direction configured to be supplied with first potential; second potential line extending in second direction and configured to be supplied with second potential; first switching circuit configured to couple first pixel electrode to first or second potential lines; and second switching circuit configured to couple second pixel electrode to first or second potential lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takayuki Nakao, Takehiro Shima
  • Patent number: 11429190
    Abstract: An electronic device displays one or more views. A first view includes a plurality of gesture recognizers. The plurality of gesture recognizers in the first view includes one or more proxy gesture recognizers and one or more non-proxy gesture recognizers. Each gesture recognizer indicates one of a plurality of predefined states. A first proxy gesture recognizer in the first view indicates a state that corresponds to a state of a respective non-proxy gesture recognizer that is not in the first view. The device delivers a respective sub-event to the respective non-proxy gesture recognizer that is not in the first view and at least a subset of the one or more non-proxy gesture recognizers in the first view. The device processes the respective sub-event in accordance with states of the first proxy gesture recognizer and at least the subset of the one or more non-proxy gesture recognizers in the first view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Joshua H. Shaffer